Universal Suffrage and Surplus Value 10 16 2026
More than 500 million dollars of republican money came from Musk and the Uihlines this election cycle:
9 0f the top 10 individuals are republicans, 4 of them giving 100 million dollars or more.
George Soros is the only individual giving more than 100 million to Democrats. Their organizations got a little money though, Majority forward and House Majority Forward spent 163,7 million dollars.
But it was Republicans who really put out the cash,the top 7 of the ten most spending paying 974.1 million dollars, mostly as individuals.
There was more too, I just didn’t total it all up, as it was only in payments of tens of millions of dollars each.
So all in all, the Republican bourgeoisie, flush with surplus value from the unpaid section of the workday, used their money to keep themselves in power by using their money, mostly for attack ads, to influence people to vote for their candidates.
The best democracy money can buy…
1.54 billion dollars to Republicans, almost 3 times as much as for Democrats. They have deep pockets when workers express displeasure with their style of ruling.
The scary thing is the attack ad propaganda works on the ignorant. It’s on the radio, television broadcasts, and cable television. They have been trying to use computers, but are getting ad blocked by the new medium. Who would voluntarily listen or watch this crap?
Yet someone is, and if the propaganda is working, and if it brings in money for Republicans, the author makes a profit, sometimes as much as 70% of the money generated.
The elections are a big business indeed. Musk is still promoting South African migration, suggesting the whites down there are being repressed by the blacks who now control the government there. Is he in favor of apartheid?
“Musk, who was born in Pretoria in 1971, railed on his social media platform X last month against the “openly racist laws” of the country of his birth and responded “yes” to the statement: “White South Africans are being persecuted for their race in their home country.””
“After the posts by the man now at the helm of Donald Trump’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge), a special group Trump has created, the US president signed an executive order accusing South Africa’s government of “unjust racial discrimination” against white Afrikaners, citing a law allowing land to be expropriated in certain circumstances. The order cut aid to South Africa, which receives 17% of its HIV/Aids budget from the US, and offered asylum to Afrikaners.”
The Guardian 3 10 2025
“To what extent Musk’s years growing up under the collapsing apartheid regime influenced his positions today, from making what looked like a Nazi salute – a characterisation he rejects – at Trump’s inauguration celebrations in January to his embrace of far-right political parties such as Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland, remains an open debate.”
Ibid. Guardian
Here’s how he ended up in South Africa:
“In the 1930s, his grandfather headed an anti-democratic fringe political movement in Canada with fascist overtones, which campaigned for government by elite technocrats. He then moved to apartheid South Africa because the racist system appealed to him.”
“Musk now appears happy to embrace the US version of the “strongman” ruler by backing Trump’s claim that the will of the president is paramount.”
\ibid.
Musk likes to get involved in suffrage even when it is not in his home state, now Texas. He interfered in Wisconsin’s supreme court elections, supporting the reactionary candidates. He was unsuccessful this last time, but is a force to be reckoned with.
It’s still one person one vote, the ancient form of equality. But with the big business of getting elected as a republican, it shatters the illusion of integrity. The Unions and working class have nowhere near the resources to have the slick product the bourgeoisie is selling. Most guys are lucky if their union dues are not breaking them. The employer knows what they are paying, and pays them accordingly, often deducting the cost of dues from their meager wages. Then naturally someone doesn’t want to pay, and the employer agrees with him there should be no union, and the closed shop buckles.
The Republicans do not represent the working man. They are the representatives of large landowner agriculture, and the big bourgeoisie. The radical Democrats are not revolutionary, but allow their members to be union. Sometimes they do’;t get it right, but find a Republican labor union? The Teamsters? This is the only group I have ever heard of supporting the bourgeoisie. I guess they feel they may get a seat at the table when capitalists talk surplus value.
But they are fooling themselves. Capitalism is the process by which the owner of capital uses that capital to create surplus value. Bourgeois utopian visions aside, there will always be a working class producing the commodities under capitalism. And there will always be class conflict. Unions are the product of the conflict between capital and workers, supporting the latter in arbitration with owners of factories or landowners.
The Teamsters no longer support the working class. No one twisted their arm to use union dues to support Trump. It is not hard to see not wanting to pay dues to this organization from your check. But most unions do not support Republicans, like the United Auto Workers. Paying union dues is part of shouldering the burden, often for non union workers who are not represented. Voting is also something expected by the union, and it is time for universal suffrage again. Time to do your part.
Nicholas Jay Boyes
Milwaukee Wisconsin
American Democratic Republic
10 16 2026
